The Differences Of Japanese-Americans And Japanese Americans During WWII

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During World War II, both the Japanese-American internees and the American POWs in Japan were feeling “invisible” and were also trying to “resist being invisible”. During the World War II, or the effects of-of it, Louie and Miné and some of their other friends and family were captured by the Japanese and were sent to one of there camps. The Japanese had some very strict rules and anyone who betrays those rules or doesn’t follow them will be isolated and dehumanized. Both Americans and Japanese-Americans were the enemy of Japan because they both ignored there warning for Americans and for the Japanese-Americans, they betrayed their country and the Japanese hated it when the Japanese-Americans called America there home. Miné and Louie experienced

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